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Anita Khemka graduated in English literature before turning to photography in 1996. Her workfocuses largely on people living on the margins of society. As a photographer, she has worked extensively with sexual minorities, prostitutes, mentally handicapped individuals and AIDS/HIV positive subjects. Through her photographs, she aims to alter attitudes towards these communities by presenting the individuality of her subjects in a sensitive and...
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Anita Khemka graduated in English literature before turning to photography in 1996. Her workfocuses largely on people living on the margins of society. As a photographer, she has worked extensively with sexual minorities, prostitutes, mentally handicapped individuals and AIDS/HIV positive subjects. Through her photographs, she aims to alter attitudes towards these communities by presenting the individuality of her subjects in a sensitive and nuanced manner.
Khemka’s work was the subject of a documentary, Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender, which was directed in 2005 and shown at the Locarno Film Festival, in Locarno, Switzerland, in the same year. The film explored the lives of India’s hijra or eunuch community, which has long been ostracised and relegated to the margins. Her work has been widely exhibited in India and has traveled to London, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Melbourne and Thailand. Khemka’s archive is represented by Photoink in New Delhi.
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Born
1981
Hyderabad
Education
PhD (Supervisor Dr. Kavita Singh), School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi
M Phil, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi
MFA (Painting), University of Hyderabad?
BFA (Painting), J.N.T.U. College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad
Honours and Awards
2012 Summer Research Academy, Getty Research Institute, Los...
2012 Summer Research Academy, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2012 Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowship, Centre of South
Asian Studies, Cambridge (Oct-Dec)
2012 Senior Research Fellowship,
2010-12 University Grants Commission, New Delhi
2008 Visiting Fellowship from the Max-Planck-Institute, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence (Sept-Oct)
2007 Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, New Delhi (2007-09)
2004 University of Hyderabad Scholarship (2004-06)
2000 J.N.T.U. Scholarship
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